BPM Enabled by SOA and
Business Event
Processing for an Agile
Business Response
Day
two of the SOA
Consortium’s June
Meeting focused on
combining SOA and Event
Processing to deliver
business capability. Ed
Lynch, Product Manager
for the BPM &
Connectivity portfolio,
and Integration Exec for
the Aptsoft acquisition,
IBM Corporation, kicked
off the morning by
sharing his view that
SOA and Event Processing
come together within
Business Process
Management.
In
building his case, Ed
first called out the
findings of IBM’s
Enterprise of the Future
CEO study[1], which
speaks to a business
environment of
accelerating change,
brought on by
globalization, constant
connectivity, doubling
data and burgeoning
competition. To cope
with this torrent of
change, executives
require two things.
First, they need
visibility into their
businesses, in
real-time. Second, those
businesses need to be
agile. Businesses must
be able to respond
quickly to opportunities
and threats, or risk
losing market share to
existing or new
competitors.
With
that business backdrop,
Ed shared the basic
constructs of event
processing and then made
the connection to
services and business
processes. In short, Ed
told attendees to think
of events as the “when”
for the “what” of
services. Business
processes orchestrate
the what, the services,
to respond to an event,
or a series of events.
Bridging
the conceptual and
reality, Ed described
several customer
examples, including
fleet management,
customer loyalty
programs, algorithmic
trading, business
activity monitoring and
fraud detection.
Throughout
the presentation, Ed
engaged in Q&A with
attendees on a range of
topics including
management practices,
data swarms, rule
management and event
processing futures.
About the Speaker:
Ed Lynch is a
Product Manager in the
IBM WebSphere brand. He
is also the Integration
Executive responsible
for the AptSoft
acquisition. Ed is based
in Toronto, Canada. He
is responsible for
overseeing the product
and investment strategy
for the WebSphere
Business Process
Management family of
products, a portfolio
which includes WebSphere
Business Events. He has
spent 24 years at IBM.
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